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Hape DIY Dream House For Boys and Girls

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

Every little girl wants a dollhouse, and everyone wants a dream house. The desire to own our own home is very Australian and often referred to as the big Australian dream. After all though what is life with dreams? Let us introduce you to the Hape DIY Dream house.

Yes, we know a dollhouse that is also a dream house, and it is. It is a 3 level masterpiece; it is modern in design and measures in at 57cm high, 72cm wide, and 29cm in depth. Now this is going to surprise you, the furniture is uniquely magnetic. For anyone who has played with a dollhouse, you would know that putting everything in place, and knocking it all over the end is heartbreaking. It is usually when you are making that final adjustment, and moving the last piece.

The furniture is a 32 piece set, offering many design possibilities for you daughter or son, dad, or mum :). It is a work of art and includes three-split floors, bookshelves, kitchen cabinets, beds, fridge, showers, and living room furniture. It is complete dollhouse set.

What is brilliant about the dollhouse is its open design, as it allows your daughter to move around the furnishing easily. It lets your daughter play with dolls without obstruction or the need to be uniquely flexible :). The Haye DIY dream houses are beautifully designed and coloured. Another great feature is that the doll house is easily accessed from two sides, allowing for more than one child to play.. Nice feature.

There are three chalkboards so your daughter can draw flowers, doors, windows, and gardens. We love this feature, as it provides your little one with the ability to create and design. Four of the rooms are set, bath, bed, living, and kitchen, leaving the top 2 spaces completely free to create an art studio, gym, or office. Whatever their heart desires.

Because the design is open, your daughter can use her or his own dolls as well, and hold parties should the occasion arise? The Haye DIY dollhouse, of course, comes with a family of dolls, 6 pieces in total. Every piece is made with most amazing detail and to the highest quality, and will bring you and your daughter or son endless hours of fun.

I guess the important that we always ask when selecting toys, is how does this help develop your child. In this case it works on fine motor skills, creativity, focus, social skills and of course language skills through the story’s they tell themselves and you when playing with each piece.

You and your daughter will be very happy with the Haye DIY Dollhouse; it is just beautiful in design, easy to play with, and easy to love. You can see more by clicking here.

Posted in creativity, doll house, dollhouse, gifts for children, hape doll house, Hape toys, imagination play, language skills, social toys

Fat Brain Toys Tobbles Stacking Toy

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

Tobbles, Tobbles, Tobbles either over or around; the Fat Brain Toys Tobbles is made to wobble, wiggle, spin, stack, balance, wobble or of course tobble :).

If you have not heard about Fat Brain Toys, the are like us curators and creators of toys for learning and fun. We are proud to be selling their toys in Australia, and have a great collection to showcase.

The Fat Brain Toys Tobbles is a toy that your child can stack, spin, tilt, and wiggle. It needs to be seen to be believed. It is unlike traditional stacking toys, as it does so much more than just stack.

The colours are vibrant, and each of the beautifully created spheres are perfectly weighted, and nest inside each other.

As with most of our selection this is another award winning toy. Having been selected in the 2012 TIA Toy Finalist of the Year, Dr Toy Top 10 Best Creative Toys, and Dr Toy Top 100 Best Children Creative Products.

Although none of this matters to us unless your child benefits through play and development. Our goal is that every toy we sell to you is not only fun for your child, but develops their beautiful mind.

This is why we have the Tobbles, which is suitable for children 3 years + , and the Tobbles Neo suitable for babies 6 months + in stock.

The Tobbles builds your child’s creativity, fine motor skills, co-ordination and visual spatial acuity. (The ability to see clearly and understand the distance between points). Yes, originally we too had to look that one up too!

Fat Brain Toys are focused on toys that are outside of the box, offering you and your child something different. In this case, this toy is so much more than just stacking cups…

So whether it is for your child, grandchild, or just the child inside of you we really feel you are going to love this one.

You can see the full range of Fat Brain Toys by clicking here, or just go straight to the Tobbles, or Tobbles Neo by clicking here.

Posted in award winning toys, educational toys, spatial smart toys, stacking toy

Ravensburger Puzzles and the Benefits to your Childs Mind

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

For only a few more days, we have Ravensburger puzzles on sale. If you have not heard about their collection and the puzzles they make, you are in for a surprise.

However, before we tell you about the quality of these puzzles, let us share with you how they develop your child. Puzzles develop your child’s spatial skills, fine motor skills, attention, concentration and focus. It also helps them learn about matching, sorting, and how many components can end up making something bigger than the sum of the parts. It also develops their memory, and recognition skills as well as problem solving capability.

In fact, puzzles are nothing short of amazing for educational development. They touch on so many area’s of both physical and brain development, that we feel every home should have them. They are superb for adults too :)

However, like anything if the product is not good the enjoyment does not last. This is why we are so proud to bring you the Ravensburger collection and also at a sale price.

Now this sales will end 30th July 2014, so with only a few days left, we wanted to write a blog and just let you know why they are so good.

The Ravensburger puzzles have soft click technology, so this means when you put them together they have that nice clicking feel. You know where it just fits snugly into the next piece.

Ravensburger creates puzzles were no two pieces are the same. Ravensburger uses international photography agencies, photographers, and internationally renowned illustrators. These agencies and illustrators create their unique pictures, portraits, and puzzle boards.

All the Ravensburger puzzles are produced on the finest composition of cardboard and must be perfect. It has been specifically designed for Ravensburger. As per their unique and exacting guidelines, they are environmentally friendly.

The secret behind the print of the puzzle picture onto a high-quality linen embossed paper, is using high-tech machines. Each puzzle picture is created with almost watchmaker precision.

Oh yes, if you ever loose a piece of the puzzle, the Ravensburger service department will be glad to assist you.

We are proud to carry this range, and we know it will bring you and your child hours of fun and development. It is one of the highest quality puzzle products on the market, and we know it will serve you and your family well.

There is a puzzle for everyone, please click here to see the full range.

Should you be after one that we do not carry, please let us know, and we can get one for you.

KidzInc because learning should be fun!

Posted in educational toys, puzzles, ravensburger, spatial smart toys

Engino Toy System - the Engino Inventor Basic

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

You are not going to believe this toy. The Engino Toy System Inventor is one of the coolest toys ever created.

As you know Thomas Edison is a famous inventor, in fact one of the most prolific inventors to have ever lived. He invented and held patents for over 1,000 inventions including the light bulb.

He was relentless in his pursuit of new ideas and his desire to improve the world. It is believed he tried over ten thousand variations of the light bulb, before finding light :).

Now if Thomas Edison had a toy like the Engino inventor when he was little, he might have invented the light bulb earlier, or with fewer attempts. Of course, we are just theorising for fun.

However, the Engino Inventor basic 25 model set is amazing. Your child can create 25 different motor powered models.

Yes, that is right, motor powered Engino models. This ranges from a car, plane, bulldozer, helicopter, racing car, truck, crane, and robotic dog just to name a few.

The Engino Toy System inventor basic has been designed to maximise creativity, and your child’s imagination.

The list of awards it has won is almost endless. However let us name a few for you.

The Engino Toy System Inventor has won:

Dr. Toy's 10 best educational toys
Dr. Toy's 100 best educational product
Toy 7 construction toys by www.about.com
Also, the ministry for Education Selection for Technology Education, Construction, Engineering, Eye-Hand Co-Ordination.

If you are after a toy that builds your child’s spatial intelligence, imagination, and motor skills this is the one.

The Engino Inventor 25 Basic comes with:

✓ 110 pieces and 475 connecting points.

✓ Printed instructions, and downloadable additional instructions

✓ It is compatible with the rest of the Engino series. Yes, unlike other more known brands, you can link the series together.

✓ Includes a 3v motor so your child can see their creations come to life

✓ It promotes logic, problem solving, imagination and your child’s interest in technology, and eye-hand co-ordination.

The Engino Toy System Inventor series is possibly the most advanced construction toy in the world.

We are very proud to stock and sell the Engino Toy System Inventor series, and we can not wait to see all the inventions your little one creates.

Click here to see the full range of Engino, or here to be taken through to the Engino Inventor basic series, which is anything but basic.

Posted in award winning toys, construction toys for boys, construction toys for girls, educational toys, engino toy system, spatial smart toys

GoldieBlox - The Construction Toy Made for Girls

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

Hey??? Yes you heard us right the construction made for little girls. You see there is this story about this engineer by the name of Debbie Sterling, who only discovered engineering at the age of 18.

She was never exposed to building toys, even Lego as a little girl and never thought twice about it. Until she discovered engineering, and then she discovered that 80% of the engineers were male.

Why? Well she figured the answer was simple, no little girls are given construction toys like GoldieBlox. So GoldieBlox was born through the ingenuity of Debra, and the community of Kickstarter.

GoldieBlox is an engineering toy made for little girls. It is a book and construction set, because little girls love to read, and they get to do this with Goldie and her crew of motley friends. As they read along they build and create the same construction sets as Goldie and her friends.

They build what Goldie builds, and at the same time they develop their spatial skills. It is the toy you may have wished you had, and the one toy that helps little girls discover if they would also like to be engineers one day. Even if they don’t, they will develop their spatial skills, be creative when they make their own designs, and love the adventure part of the GoldieBlox story.

GoldieBlox combines spatial skills and reading skills. Which of course develops verbal skill. GoldieBlox was born in San Francisco just over a year ago, and we are proud to help bring it to the world, and your daughter.

Oh yes, did we mention it comes in pink :)

Click here to buy the GoldieBlox construction toy for your little girl.

Posted in award winning toys, construction toys for girls, educational toys, goldieblox, spatial smart toys

Digibirds - The singing table top Pets

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

Finally, the Digibird’s have arrived. These magical little birds, tweet, sing many different songs, move, and join each other in the choir. Yes, just like having your own little bird without any mess. I know who can believe it.

This is one of the hottest new toys on the market, and every child will soon be asking for one.

Digibird just won “girls toy of the year 2014” at the Australian Toy Association.

Yes and believe it or not, you can now order them.

Amazingly the Digibird will provide your child with hours of fun. When they blow at their little Digibird, the Digibird will tweet.

When your child uses the whistle ring that comes with the Digibird, they will sing songs.

Your Digibird even comes with a free Android or iPhone App that you download to access more songs, and can play to open up tunes.

When you collect more than one Digibird, they can all sing along together like a little choir. So if your daughter has friends who have a Digibird, they can have them sing along together. What a fun way to learn co-operation?

The Digibird’s also have some of the coolest accessories. You can buy a fun playhouse, seesaw, or birdcage. You can even link the birdcages so you can carry more than one Digibird.

There are 12 beautiful Digibird’s with a whistle ring to choose from or collect, and we are taking orders now. Don’t miss out!

Click here to buy the Digibirds interactive singing pet for your little girl or boy.

Posted in award winning toys, digibirds, nature smart toys

10 tips on early reading

Posted on June 02, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

I saw a letter from Dr. Seuss to a primary school yesterday, and I thought his advice was brilliant. It read something like this “Dear Primary School, read, read, read, read, read, Sincerely Dr. Seuss.”

Dr. Seuss was truly a brilliant man, and a wonderful writer of children’s books. So his advice is well worth listening too, at least in our opinion. So this got me thinking, how can we teach our daughter to read, and acquire a love of books? Our little girl is only 3, and fortunately we have been able to achieve the first point by reading to her daily since birth. She loves to read books, and we are very pleased about this.

However, how do we move her from loving to read to reading, as she is not at school yet, and if we are to teach her how do we ensure we do this correctly?

So we gave this some thought, read some books ourselves, and searched for some good ideas. We thought there were some fantastic ideas and concepts out there, and wanted to share these with you today.

1. Share rhymes and songs, and encourage your child to join in

2. Point out letters, and words all around you and explain them

3. Stick the alphabet on a wall and go through each of the letters

4. Have them listen to the ABC song, one they like and sing it with them

5. Have them associate letters with characters, such as L is for Lion

6. Go to your local library and join the reading class

7. Make sure they have a bedtime story, in our daughters case we are now negating this down to 4

8. Repetition, reading the same books over and over is actually also very good

9. Let them choose books for themselves at the library or bookstore

10. When you are reading books over and over to them, stop midway through a favourite sentence and ask them what happens next?

So there you have it 10 quick tips, we hope they are useful and prompt some ideas of your own. Reading is truly a beautiful gift to give your little one, and one that they will be able to cherish forever.